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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
- 1Abdul Rahman, Siti Aishah
- 1Acton, Leah T
- 1Aghamohammadi Sereshki, Arash
- 1Ainsley, Emily N.
- 1Bandet, Mischa V.
- 1Batty, Nicholas J.
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Spring 2019
PINK1 (Phosphatase-Tensin homologue (PTEN)-induced putative kinase 1) is a protein kinase heavily involved in mitochondrial health and integrity. It has multiple domains: an N-terminal mitochondrial targeting sequence, a transmembrane domain, and a kinase domain. Some mutations, located...
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Reconciling organizational and cellular discrepancies between the mammalian and the avian cerebellum
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Birds and mammals have highly developed cerebella. There are many similarities at both the cellular level and the systems level between these classes, although there are some apparent differences. In this thesis, we explored two of these discrepancies. The first is a difference at the systems...
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Spring 2023
Background: Functional recovery following a spinal cord injury (SCI) is linked to neuroplasticity, including neurite outgrowth and rewiring of neuronal connections rostral and caudal to the injury. Plasticity promoting treatments can be targeted to specific locations within the central nervous...
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Fall 2018
Physical training can affect the excitability of spinal reflexes in a training-specific manner in uninjured humans. Therefore, the first part of this thesis examined the changes in the excitability of a polysynaptic and a monosynaptic reflex in an ankle plantarflexor, after contrasting forms of...
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Role of gangliosides in extracellular vesicle secretion in wild-type and Huntington's disease cell models
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Gangliosides are sialic acid containing glycosphingolipids highly enriched in the brain that play vital roles in intercellular communication, cell signalling and calcium homeostasis. A decrease in the ganglioside levels in the brain has been associated with several neurodegenerative diseases....
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Fall 2024
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease that is characterized by demyelination of central nervous system axons. Symptoms of MS are highly heterogenous, although some, such as motor deficits and chronic pain, are very common in those with the disease. Defined by the International...
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Sleep Disordered Breathing: Contribution of Abdominal Muscle Activation and Hormonal Intervention in Healthy and Pathological Conditions
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Breathing and sleep are both imperative and intricate physiological processes that require development in the perinatal period to sustain life and adapting to changes in postnatal life. Inspiration and expiration are generated by oscillatory microcircuits located in the ventrolateral medulla and...
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Fall 2023
Sleep is a vital neurobiological process, yet despite its fundamental significance, delineating the endogenous neural pathways involved has been slow to progress due to a lack of diverse sleep models. Anesthesia, which has direct behavioural parallels to natural sleep, and which is often linked...
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Structural changes of the amygdala subnuclei and limbic white matter tracts in healthy aging and major depressive disorder
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The world population is dramatically aging. Several factors affect brain in healthy aging. The apolipoprotein E (APOE), brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and catechol-O-methyl transferase (COMT) might be involved in neurodegenerative diseases, depression and cognitive decline in healthy...
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The Antinociceptive Effects of Cannabinoids and Terpenoids on a Zebrafish Model of Nociception
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With many communities affected by the opioid crisis, it has become of paramount importance to explore methods of pain management outside of treatments with opioids. One alternative treatment that has seen a recent surge in interest is cannabis and its related phytochemical-based treatments....